Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequal

Medical anthropology is one of the youngest and most dynamic of the various subdisciplines within anthropology. It examines health related issues in pre-capital

A critical examination of the field and study of medical anthropology in the world system.

Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we